books.google.com.au - In this strange, hypnotic novel, Chris McCool, the dandyish, debonair playboy of a small and insulated community called The Happy Club, reflects his two lives: the one he lives, and the darker one he's tried hard to forget. The illegitimate son of a rich Protestant landowner's wife and a poor Catholic...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Holy_City.html?id=Q9ZwE7vMZ2kC&q=Garden+of+Verses&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Holy City